Rusty Russell

Paul Rusty Russell, employed by IBM s IBM Linux Technology Center and a technical member of OzLabs, is an Australian Linux kernel Hacker. He is most well-known for his work on packet filtering (in particular, ipchains and netfilter), but has also made a large number of other contributions, including Futexes, the cloop, hotplug Central processing unit support and an in-kernel (computer science) module (Linux) loader.

In 1999, he conceived, bankrolled and executed the first Australian Linux conference, today s annually held Linux.conf.au.

Until August 2005, Rusty Russell also maintained a patch (computing) collection of trivial patches for the Linux kernel (the Trivial Patch Monkey ), which accumulated small patches that otherwise might get lost.

Paul Russell was also one of many stage names used by Singer Gary Glitter.

=External links=

*[http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/892 KernelTrap interview with Rusty Russell] *[http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/ Rusty Russell s homepage and diary] *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Technical_Speeches Rusty Russell technical speeches] *[http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/trivial/ Linux Kernel Trivial Patch Monkey]